GOP’s policy is the problem

“The Democrats’ accusation of a GOP ‘war on women’ sticks not because of what Democrats say but because of what Republicans do — and the big problems aren’t personal pratfalls but rather public policy,” says Dana Milbankin The Washington Post.

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“You WILL bear your rapist’s baby and you WILL grant your rapist visitation rights.” Uh-huh. Jawohl, mein Fuhrer! No war on women, sure. So much for “Freedom” in the good old U.S.A. Sounds more like the blinkin’ Taliban.

Feinstein=emotional, uh-huh. Just like all those emotional WOMEN that go shooting up shopping malls, theaters, schools, campuses, military camps….

Shakespear might have been referring to this Democrat assessment of “War on Women” when he first thought of, “Much ado about nothing”. Rational people seem to be recognizing that when even a logical pendelum is allowed to swing totally uncontrolled, there’s a tendency for it to swing too far, sometimes way too far, which then needs to be brought back into some semblance of balance.

Being treated equally means we all should have access, equally, to the opportunity to acquire what we NEED, not that we’re all somehow ENTITLED to everything that we WANT. Most of the gap between what we actually need and what we really want is eliminated by how much effort each of us is willing to put into personally closing the gap.

As a society, we’ve been pursuing an objective of perfection since 1776, and although we’ve accomplished a lot in that pursuit, we remain a long way from having reached that objective. The encouraging news is we’re still trying just as hard, and the prospects for continued forward movement is favorable, as long as we remember to work together.

It’s long been suggested, “A house divided against itself, cannot stand” and this seemingly constant effort to pit one segment of our society, one group within our society, one objective of our society against another within our society is going to backfire on ALL of us sharing our society.

The solution seems much more plausible in baking the pie we all share bigger, to accomodate bigger slices, than to keep reslicing a stagnant sized pie and quibbling about how big some of the other slices may be. There’s never been, nor ever will be, anything worthwhile accomplished by pointing at something being done wrong to justify permitting something just as wrong to be allowed. The solution is facing, and fixing, whatever is actually being done wrong, while avoiding creating anyting similar.

Remmber our founding idea included the inherent rights of “Life, Liberty and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS”. How fast, and how much, happiness we each find is directly attributable to how much effort we each exert and put into finding it.

As an example, equal pay, for equal work that produces equally effective and equally valuable results, in the same jobs, has pretty much been the actual standard, for decades. Arbitrarily equating one job as being more, or less, important to another job, is entirely a matter of who is making that judgment. Basing those judgments on marketplace driven factors, rather than bureaucratic government decrees, pronouncements and political interests keep those results a lot closer to reality. There are an unlimited array of reasons why one person chooses to pursue their “happiness” at a different pace, or place, than someone else, because both individuals are entitled to their own perspective of what “happiness” is and means.

Opportunity to choose an individual course to pursue “happiness”, is a different story. We ALL have a right to pursue (do what is necessary to be able to pursue) the same available goals as anyone else. The starting line to chase opportunities, however, may well be staggered and some competitors may have started their pursuit, several generations ago, and find themselves better qualified TODAY from someone NOT having started so early.

Sometimes the choices we make slow our rate of pursuit, the most gifted and talented blaksmith, may not find as much compensation reward as a data entry specialist in a high tech environment, even though the blacksmith worked long and hard to achieve his competency.

Sometimes we all just have to look at what is actually going on behind the curtain, rather than pay attention to the instructions coming out from behind there, telling everyone to look away, because they don’t want you to see what is actually going on.

Please explain how lilith’s posts were “ridiculous” and “without any material value or purpose”. Unless you were speaking of mine, which made no pretense of being on the direct topic. Either way, your reply is inane.

In fact, the most ridiculous posts are the ones that go on endlessly, burying the point, if it ever gets there at all, within a ton of pretentious bombast.

Reep — Not to mention long-winded and irrelevant dissertations that are full of sophistry, abstraction, and pseudo-argument, such as AJ’s, which are demonstrative of someone who so utterly, indifferently, and myopically fails to grasp the point of Millbank’s editorial (and my posts)– i.e. that the cruel extremism, lack of empathy, lack of reality, and self-centeredness of the GOP stance toward women will, hopefully, drive female voters away in droves.

AJ – If anyone is to talk of entitlement, let them talk about the GOP, who are the unswerving champions of those well-heeled and well-oiled interests who have their hands out for wads of taxpayer cash at every turn.

I understand you have real difficulty spending a lot of your ever so valuable time considering logic and reality, and have suggested, rather than stress yourself, simply blow on by any posts you consider not worth your effort. I’ll manage the disappointment.

In the meantime, you’ll have to allow me my opinion that, “Forcing women to bear their rapist’s babies”, is very much, “a short, ridiculous, emotional response without any material value or purpose”, that likely wasn’t even intended to add anything of value to this discussion.

Lilith – And dismissive too, but we know by now to expect that, along with all your finely chosen adjectives.

Albert – I love logic and reality. I really do. I’ll especially love the day you start using them. Until then, I challenge anyone to find where your #3 added even a fraction of the value you seem to think it did.

@ReepDaggle, outlaw Lilith,
I stopped reading Albert J’s posts a long time ago. Reading them felt like being taken hostage by a lunatic. Even his shorter posts tend to be gibberish so for the most part I don’t read of those either.

Eliminating a “messenger” is not going to accomplish a thing to correct a badly flawed message, gentlemen. The strategy of selecting “Villains dujur” to deflect any and all blame to, in order to veil incompetency and arrogance, actually proved effective for some time.

As, thankfully is often the case, consistent reliance on, and over use of, an effective, but purely bogus, strategy ultimately wears thin and exposes the rhetoric for the BS it actually is. As most American men realize (some slower than others), American women are not stupid, and although sometimes temporarily distracted by fog and mirrors, recognize when they are being duped.

That same old, simple question, sooner or later comes up, “Are you better off than you were 5 (going on 6) years ago, and what does more of the same hold for the future”? The “War on Women” is, and has been since it’s inception little more than an empty bumper sticker carefully targeting phoney exaggerations of perceived “hot buttons” developed specifically to redirect focus away from the glaring mishandles that are, and have, allowed opportunities to drift past unclaimed.

A long history clearly points out, that when the objective is to “level the playing field” the inevitable result has ALWAYS been to produce a LOWER standard for EVERYONE (except those that have seized control of setting everyone Else’s standards, who always seem to fare a lot better).

There are two basic approaches; those who want to keep re-slicing the same pie (as long as they hold the knife) and those who understand, and are capable of baking, more and bigger pies, that can provide more and larger individual slices, as well as providing opportunities for everyone to cut their own slices.

I wouldn’t hazard a guess at how many different “Villains”, who will be blamed for any and all failures of this Administration and progressive “visions”, that have likely been tried and failed before, until we get past this year’s election. Good investments might be ear plugs and hip boots.